Thursday, January 27, 2011

I Guess I'm Actually Doing This

TEN HOW’S:

How did you get one of your scars?
Stabbing a Pringles can and it went into my hand.

How did you celebrate your last birthday?
At an arcade with a ton of friends. I felt so loved.

How are you feeling at this moment?
Exhausted/bloated/okay with everything

How did your night go last night?
Taught a small nook class, ate a lot of grain salad, and watched Chopped. So, well.

How did you do in high school?
Fine enough to get the paper.

How did you get the shirt you’re wearing?
Went with Nathan to Bleeding Heart and met Johnny Cupcakes.

How often do you see ur best friend?
I see the majority of my best friends pretty often.

How much money did you spend last month?
Hahahahaha

How old do you want to be when you get married?

IDGAF


How old will you be at your next birthday?
Quarter of a century


NINE WHAT’S:

Your mothers name?
Mary Ellen

What did you do last weekend?

Ate pizza, saw T&HT, read, stole a lot of music from teh webz.

What is the most important part of your life?
Too many pillars to my being to spew off.

What would you rather be doing?
Resting or holding someone.

What did you last cry over?
My Dad

What always makes you feel better when you’re upset?
Myself

What’s the most important thing you look for in a significant other?
Kindness, Understanding, Hygeine.

What are you worried about?
College

What did you have for breakfast?
12-Grain Bread w/ Pumpkin Jam, Chocolate Peanut Butter Vanilla Bean Steel Cut Oatmeal w/ Walnuts, Capital Letters.


EIGHT HAVE YOU’S:

Have you ever liked someone who had a girlfriend/boyfriend?
We all have.

Have you ever had your heartbroken?
Yup.

Have you ever been out of the country?
Nope.

Have you ever done something outrageously dumb?
No, never.

Have you ever been back stabbed by a friend?
If I have, I’ve forgotten about it. Who hangs onto that stuff?

Have you ever had sex on the beach?
No.

Have you ever dated someone younger than you?
Only.

Have you ever read an entire book in one day?
Yes.


SEVEN WHO’S:

Who was the last person you saw?
Buzz

Who was the last person you texted?
Rachel

Who was the last person you hungout with?
Clare

Who was the last person to call you?
Jon

Who did you last hug?
Buzz

Who is the last person who texted you?
Clare

Who was the las person you said “i love you” to?
Clare or my Mom


SIX WHERE’S:

Where does your best friend live?
All are within 30 miles of me.

Where did you last go?
In the sink.

Where did you last hang out?
My house.

Where do you go to school?
In books.

Where is your favorite place to be?
I like new places, but I guarantee it’s not Subway.

Where did you sleep last night?
Mah bed.


FIVE DO’S/DOES:

Do you like someone right now?
Always do.

Do you think anyone likes you?
DUH.

Do you ever wish you were someone else?
What’s the point?

Do you know the muffin man?
If his name is Carl, I don’t.

Does the future scare you?
Not at all. What happens, happens. Adapt. Outlast.


FOUR WHY’S:

Why are you best friends with your best friend(s)?
Because we make lots of sexual jokes and say how much we hate ourselves after them.

Why did you get a myspace?
Pahaha

Why did your parents give you the name you have?
Beloved.

Why are you doing this survey?
I was hoping that by doing this survey, I would be able to pay off current family medical debts, credit card debts, and find better batteries for portable technologies.


THREE IF’S:

If you could have one super power what would it be?
Teleportation

If you could go back in time and change one thing, would you?
Not a chance.

If u were stranded on a deserted island & could bring one thing what would you bring?
A bag full of a lot of other things.


TWO WOULD-YOU-EVER’S:

Would you ever get back together with any of your ex’s if they asked you?
Depends.

Would you ever shave your head to save someone you love?
Who says no to this?


ONE LAST QUESTION

Are you happy with your life right now?
No reason not to be. I’m surrounded by love.

Posted via email from DaveInStereo

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Tweetie 2 Good 2 Be 2rue

For the longest time now, since before I got my iPhone from a tall, stupid redhead who I miss dearly, Twitteriffic was my Twitter client of choice. I liked its unique and customizable design, easy transfers between accounts, color coding for types of tweets, and I'm not gonna lie, its name just suggested fun to me (and it was).

A couple months ago though, subpar-IMO Tweetie came out with Tweetie 2 and oh how the blogs were ablaze with praise. It didn't phase me though — I didn't believe anything could be better than listening to that bluebird sing when new posts came to my feed.

But there was one, glaring problem with Twitteriffic and that was its lack of a landscape keyboard.

You see, I came from a Sidekick 2008 and before that, a Sidekick iD. I had widescreen, QWERTY typing instilled into my text messaging brain and thumbs. Big, physical buttons for big, not-technically-finger appendages. Typing in portrait, on a touchscreen at that, is a hassle. I've gotten better at vertical pecking (no homo), but when 3.0 was released, the feature I was most excited about was landscape typing.

So I says to myself, I says "Hmm, well Tweetie 2 does that... If everyone in TechBlogosphere is so excited for this app, I'll shell out $3, bring lunch to work one day, and give it a go."

(BOOM, you are now two days ahead in time. Hurl bags are in the pocket in front of you.)

Well fuck me, I can't believe I waited so long. It is just beautiful! When Johnny Ive designed the iPhone, the blokes who made Tweetie 2 must have latched their SDK to his brain (via FireWire, duh) and matched the sex factor to a T.

Tweetie 2 is the quintesential iPhone app. It's simple, flawless, functional, and has a classic sort of pretty like my girlfriend had on her prom night*. It has landscape and candy canes and Red Vines and blue lights and all things good. If Tweetie 2 had a scent, it would be a vanilla candle. It is so utterly delicious, you want to bite into its waxy, glass body and savor the sweetness. It's so comfortable and inviting, but so cool and collected at the same time, you want to ask it out on a date. You know it'll say no though, not because it's a bunch of 1s and 0s, but because it's not really on your level now, is it?

This is what every app in the App Store should aspire to. It's something so well put together, it actuallydeserves its price tag (and more). I want to pull down to refresh Facebook, eBay, webpages, and everything else now. I look for little blue dots at the bottom of message tags telling me calmly that someone has something to say to me. This app makes Apple's efforts look like my fucking kindergarten drawings of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Muddled blobs of complete disarray (without the weapons.)

Tweetie 2, despite its lame Hollywood sequel name, should come preloaded on OS 4.0. Fuck, it should come on 3.1.3. Apple should buy this company and have them fix the UI that I didn't think was in any state of needing repair.

So if you aren't loading up your App Store or iTunes right now and telling yourself you'll just skip that Soy Pumpkin Chai next time, you are doing a disservice to — I'm just gonna go ahead and say it — all the narwhals in the world. It's a scientific law that they will lose their tusks if you don't ditch Echofone or Twitteriffic or whatever fucking stupid Twitter client you have for the absolute clean grace and poise of Tweetie 2.

* For the record, my girlfriend still has that classic beauty. Points!

Posted via email from daveinstereo's posterous

Tweetie 2 Good 2 Be 2rue

For the longest time now, since before I got my iPhone from a tall, stupid redhead who I miss dearly, Twitteriffic was my Twitter client of choice. I liked its unique and customizable design, easy transfers between accounts, color coding for types of tweets, and I'm not gonna lie, it's name just suggested fun to me (and it was).

A couple months ago though, subpar-IMO Tweetie came out with Tweetie 2 and oh how the blogs were ablaze with praise. It didn't phase me though — I wouldn't believe that something was better than listening to that bluebird sing when new posts came to my feed.

But there was one, glaring problem with Twitteriffic and that was its lack of a landscape keyboard.

You see, I came from a Sidekick 2008 and before that, a Sidekick iD. I had widescreen, QWERTY typing instilled into my text messaging brain and thumbs. Big, physical buttons for big, not-technically-finger appendages. Typing in portrait, on a touchscreen at that, is a hassle. I've gotten better at vertical pecking (no homo), but when 3.0 was released, the feature I was most excited about was landscape typing.

So I says to myself, I says "Hmm, well Tweetie 2 does that... If everyone in TechBlogosphere is so excited for this app, I'll shell out $3, bring lunch to work one day, and give it a go."

(BOOM, you are now two days ahead in time. Hurl bags are in the pocket in front of you.)

Well fuck me, I can't believe I waited so long. It is just beautiful! When Johnny Ive designed the iPhone, the blokes who made Tweetie 2 must have latched their SDK to his brain (via FireWire, duh) and matched the sex factor to a T.

Tweetie 2 is the quintesential iPhone app. It's simple, flawless, functional, and has a classic sort of pretty like my girlfriend had on her prom night*. It has landscape and candy canes and Red Vines and blue lights and all things good. If Tweetie 2 had a scent, it would be a vanilla candle. It is so utterly delicious, you want to bite into its waxy, glass body and savor the sweetness. It's so comfortable and inviting, but so cool and collected at the same time, you want to ask it out on a date. You know know it'll say no though, not because it's a bunch of 1s and 0s, but because it's not really on your level now, is it?

This is what every app in the App Store should aspire to. It's something so well put together, it actually deserves its price tag (and more). I want to pull down to refresh Facebook, eBay, webpages, and everything else now. I look for little blue dots at the bottom of message tags telling me calmly that someone has something to say to me. This app makes Apple's efforts look like my fucking kindergarten drawings of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Muddled blobs of complete disarray (without the weapons.)

Tweetie 2, despite it's lame Hollywood sequel name, should come preloaded on OS 4.0. Fuck, it should come on 3.1.3. Apple should buy this company and have them fix the UI that I didn't think was in any state of needing repair.

So if you aren't loading up your App Store or iTunes right now and telling yourself you'll just skip that Soy Pumpkin Chai next time, you are doing a disservice to — I'm just gonna go ahead and say it — all the narwhals in the world. It's a scientific law that they will lose their tusks if you don't ditch Echofone or Twitteriffic or whatever fucking stupid Twitter client you have for the absolute clean grace and poise of Tweetie 2.

* For the record, my girlfriend still has that classic beauty. Points!

Posted via email from daveinstereo's posterous

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

In Regards to The Internet and Guilt

You know what? Fuck that last piece of shit, I'm pissed. I just watched the video of the last Left Hand Path set and I'm so ashamed of my habits. I am gonna be self-depreciating and full of hate; I have no worthwhile talents. I've done nothing with my life but watch DUMB AS FUCK videos, waste my time and money on bullshit and tickets, and care WAY too much about cell phones! I need to leave. I need to drive so far away that it hurts me. I need to feel something because I've grown comatose to everything.

Except for love. God I'm so fucking lucky to have that. It's the only thing that keeps me going. But it's safe. I'm in a bubble. I want to be staring down the fucking edge of the world. Come and be scared with me.

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In Regards to "In Regards to the Internet"

You know what? Fuck that shit. I watched the video of the last Left Hand Path set and I'm so ashamed of my habits. I am gonna be self-depreciating and full of hate; I have no worthwhile talents. I've done nothing with my life but watch DUMB AS FUCK videos, waste my time and money on bullshit and tickets, and care WAY too much about cell phones! I need to leave. I need to drive so far away that it hurts me. I need to feel something because I've grown comatose with everything.

Except for love. God I'm so fucking lucky to have that. It's the only thing that keeps me going. But it's safe. I'm in a bubble. I want to be staring down the fucking edge of the world. Come and be scared with me.

Posted via email from daveinstereo's posterous

The Internet and Guilt

It's a routine I've gotten into. But seriously, is it that much different than reading a newspaper? Let's see; Opinions, technology, politics, sales flyers, comics — check, check, check, check, check. You even read both in coffee houses. J.D. posted an article on "Infobesity" a little while ago. I could see how I'd fall into that category, but if I read the newspaper everyday, that wouldn't be frowned upon at all. Bookmarks, Blogs, and RSS feeds. We just make efficency easy.

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Sunday, October 25, 2009